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The trial of Anne-Diana Clain and her husband, tried for association of terrorist criminals, for trying to reach Syria with their children between summer 2015 and 2016, opens Tuesday, November 19.
This trial should also allow to know more about the Clain family, one of the best known names of French jihadism. Anne-Diana's brothers, Fabien and Jean-Michel , who were killed last February in Syria, were the main Francophone voice of the Islamic State group between 2015 and 2018.
Anne-Diana is the last Clain clan to have tried to reach Syria in the summer of 2015. However, her marriage with Mohamed Amri, an older Tunisian woman, will bring this Christian family from Reunion Island to convert to Islam in the late 1990s, before marrying the most radical theories.
The radicalization of the Clain family
Between 2014 and 2015, almost all his family joined the Syrian areas held by the Islamic State organization: first his brothers, Jean-Michel and Fabien, each party with women and children, then their mother, Marie-Rosane.
The two men, who became propagandists of the Islamic State, will claim the attacks of 13 November 2015 . The two older daughters of Anne-Diana will join them next, as well as her half-sister, also part of the family.
The radicalization of Clain, an enigma
How could a whole clan switch? This is not the heart of the trial, but elements of response could be made through the attempt to leave Anne-Diana and her husband.
For a year, according to the prosecution, they sought to join Syria fiercely, accompanied by their four children, guided by Fabien Clain then by the husband of his half-sister. In July 2016, they are arrested in Turkey and expelled.
" It was to join my family and live in a Muslim state ," said investigators Anne-Diana, who is holding a repentant speech today. Her husband denies any plans to settle in Syria.